Characterize
verb
To describe the distinctive features of something or someone.
She characterized the situation as extremely chaotic.
Often appears as...
- characterize the situation
- characterize the behavior
verb
To be a distinctive feature or quality of something or someone.
Kindness is a quality that characterizes her.
Often appears as...
- characterizes her nature
- characterizes his style
verb
To describe the distinctive features of something or someone.
She characterized the situation as extremely chaotic.
Often appears as...
- characterize the situation
- characterize the behavior
verb
To be a distinctive feature or quality of something or someone.
Kindness is a quality that characterizes her.
Often appears as...
- characterizes her nature
- characterizes his style
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Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Use
Use 'characterize' when summarizing or highlighting key aspects.
The author characterized the hero as brave and selfless.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective View
'Characterize' can imply a subjective perspective or opinion.
Critics characterized the film as a masterpiece.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implications
Choose carefully to avoid unintended negative connotations.
The opponents characterized the policy as ineffective.
Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Use
Use 'characterize' when summarizing or highlighting key aspects.
The author characterized the hero as brave and selfless.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective View
'Characterize' can imply a subjective perspective or opinion.
Critics characterized the film as a masterpiece.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implications
Choose carefully to avoid unintended negative connotations.
The opponents characterized the policy as ineffective.
Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Use
Use 'characterize' when summarizing or highlighting key aspects.
The author characterized the hero as brave and selfless.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective View
'Characterize' can imply a subjective perspective or opinion.
Critics characterized the film as a masterpiece.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Implications
Choose carefully to avoid unintended negative connotations.
The opponents characterized the policy as ineffective.
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Climate Change 101 with...
isn't the climate always changing what exactly is climate change why should we care well the Earth's climate has changed throughout history most of these slight changes are caused by small variations in the Earth's orbit but climate change as we know it today is characterized by an abrupt increase in the earth's
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The colossal consequences...
characterized by a volume of erupted material, many times greater than that of ordinary volcanoes. And while the popular image of volcanic destruction is molten rock engulfing the surrounding land, far greater devastation is caused by what remains in the air.
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Surviving a nuclear...
attack eliminating the threat altogether and I would like to make a case to you that over the years since we first develop atomic weaponry until this very moment we've actually lived in a dangerous nuclear world that's characterized by two phases which I'm
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The psychology of...
grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. There's also narcissistic personality disorder, a more extreme form, which we'll return to shortly. Grandiose narcissism is the most familiar kind, characterized by extroversion, dominance, and attention seeking.
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The Spider Monkeys of...
that are characterized by their long limbs. They are also characterized by only having four fingers on their hands, and they are normally found in primary forests, especially this species. And- well, they are critically endangered.
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How the pandemic will...
that really impact how we should respond to it? We're still not able to characterize who the super-spreaders are in terms of what that profile is, and we may never. That may just be quite random. If you could identify them,
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Nationalism vs....
What characterizes sentient beings in contrast to robots, to stones, to whatever, is that sentient beings suffer, can suffer, and what they should focus on is not finding their place in some mysterious cosmic drama.
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Who are you, really? The...
what I call your "idiogenic" nature. Let me explain. One of the things that characterizes extroverts is they need stimulation. And that stimulation can be achieved by finding things that are
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Beware, fellow...
that an economy is best understood as an ecosystem and characterized by the same kinds of feedback loops you find in a natural ecosystem, a feedback loop between customers and businesses.
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How to disrupt...
difficult means not easy to deal with or to manage characterized by causing hardship or problems a difficult person makes a fuss for no reason she's
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Climate Change 101 with...
isn't the climate always changing what exactly is climate change why should we care well the Earth's climate has changed throughout history most of these slight changes are caused by small variations in the Earth's orbit but climate change as we know it today is characterized by an abrupt increase in the earth's
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The colossal consequences...
characterized by a volume of erupted material, many times greater than that of ordinary volcanoes. And while the popular image of volcanic destruction is molten rock engulfing the surrounding land, far greater devastation is caused by what remains in the air.
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Surviving a nuclear...
attack eliminating the threat altogether and I would like to make a case to you that over the years since we first develop atomic weaponry until this very moment we've actually lived in a dangerous nuclear world that's characterized by two phases which I'm
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The psychology of...
grandiose and vulnerable narcissism. There's also narcissistic personality disorder, a more extreme form, which we'll return to shortly. Grandiose narcissism is the most familiar kind, characterized by extroversion, dominance, and attention seeking.
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The Spider Monkeys of...
that are characterized by their long limbs. They are also characterized by only having four fingers on their hands, and they are normally found in primary forests, especially this species. And- well, they are critically endangered.
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How the pandemic will...
that really impact how we should respond to it? We're still not able to characterize who the super-spreaders are in terms of what that profile is, and we may never. That may just be quite random. If you could identify them,
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Nationalism vs....
What characterizes sentient beings in contrast to robots, to stones, to whatever, is that sentient beings suffer, can suffer, and what they should focus on is not finding their place in some mysterious cosmic drama.
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Who are you, really? The...
what I call your "idiogenic" nature. Let me explain. One of the things that characterizes extroverts is they need stimulation. And that stimulation can be achieved by finding things that are
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Beware, fellow...
that an economy is best understood as an ecosystem and characterized by the same kinds of feedback loops you find in a natural ecosystem, a feedback loop between customers and businesses.
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How to disrupt...
difficult means not easy to deal with or to manage characterized by causing hardship or problems a difficult person makes a fuss for no reason she's
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
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Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Keir Starmer
British Politician
I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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Richard Hayne
American Businessman
I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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Kevin Plank
American Businessman
I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
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Jeff Bezos
American Businessman
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
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Dalai Lama
Tibetan Leader
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
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Keir Starmer
British Politician
I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.
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Albert Einstein
German Physicist
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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Richard Hayne
American Businessman
I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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Kevin Plank
American Businessman
I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
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